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A bird of February 22 has the entire plumage very worn and 

 bleached. Examples collected July 6 and August 13 are molting 

 remiges and rectrices. 



Adults had the irides golden-yellow; the eyelids edged slate; the 

 cere dark olive, brownish gray, or olive-brown ; the bill olive-green, 

 yellowish at the tip; the toes brownish yellow or olive-yellow; the 

 soles yellow ; the claws black or slaty. 



This species has the entire upperparts dark grayish brown, every- 

 where spotted or barred with white, more thickly on the upper back 

 to form a broad, but not clearly defined, collar ; the underparts white, 

 with a dark brown band across the throat, and broad, irregular, dark 

 brown bars on the lower breast, abdomen, and flanks. 



The present race is distinguishable from fuZchva, the form inhabit- 

 ing southwestern Thailand, only by having the length of wing rang- 

 ing from 152 to 163 mm., rather than from 138 to 152 mm. 



STRIX LEPTOGRAMMICA NEWARENSIS (Hodgson) 



Himalayan Brown Wood Owl 



[Vlulaf] Newarensis Hodgson, Asiatick Researches, vol. 19, 1836, pp. 168-170 



(Nepal). 

 Strioe leptogrammica neivarensis, Chasen and Boden Kloss, Journ. Siam Soc. 



Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1932, p. 233 (Doi Suthep).— Deignan, Journ. Siam Soc. 



Nat. Hist. Suppl., 1936, p. 89 (Doi Suthep). 



The brown wood owl has been recorded only from Doi Suthep. 

 Aagaard took a female there at 4,600 feet in the spring of 1931; in 

 September of the same year I heard and saw (with a torch) one at 

 5,500 feet but in the darkness was unable to collect it. 



The song is composed of four deep, hollow-sounding hoots and is 

 reminiscent of that of the Nearctic species, Strix varia. 



This is a large species without horns. It has the facial region gray- 

 ish or buffy, bordered blackish brown ; the upperparts deep chocolate- 

 brown, narrowly barred with white or light brown everywhere except 

 on the head and nape, though rather less so on the shoulders and at 

 the center of the back ; the throat whitish ; the remaining underparts 

 buffy, narrowly and regularly barred everywhere with chocolate. 



I have not been able to examine Aagaard's specimen, but it has been 

 discussed by Chasen and Boden Kloss (loc. cit.), who state that "it 

 is much less warmly coloured and paler below than mmngayV On 

 the other hand, the wing length of 400 mm. is too short for the female 

 of true newarensis. If it prove desirable to give nomenclatural rec- 

 ognition to the intermediate birds of northern Thailand, one of the 

 several names already bestowed upon Indo-Chinese specimens will be 

 available. 



